Nahum 2:8

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And as for Ninive, her waters are like a great pool, but the men flee away. They cry: Stand, stand, but there is none that will return back.

Cross References

Revelation 17:15

And he said to me: The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and nations, and tongues.

Revelation 17:1

And there came one of the seven angels, who had the seven vials, and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters,

Nahum 3:17

Thy guards are like the locusts: and thy little ones like the locusts of locusts which swarm on the hedges in the day of cold: the sun arose, and they flew away, and their place was not known where they were.

Jeremiah 51:30

The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have dwelt in holds: their strength hath failed and they are become as women: her dwelling-places are burnt, her bars are broken.

Jeremiah 50:16

Destroy the sower out of Babylon and him that holdeth the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the sword of the dove every man shall return to his people and every one shall flee to his own land.

Jeremiah 46:5

What then? I have seen them dismayed and turning their backs, their valiant ones slain. They fled apace and they looked not back: terror was round about, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 48:20

Come forth out of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, declare it with the voice of joy: make this to be heard, and speak it out even to the ends of the earth. Say: The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

Isaiah 47:13

Thou hast failed in the multitude or thy counsels. Let now the astrologers stand and save thee, they that gazed at the stars and counted the months, that from them they might tell the things that shall come to thee.

Isaiah 13:14

And they shall be as a doe fleeing away, and as a sheep: and there shall be none to gather them together. Every man shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.

Genesis 10:11

Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale.

Jeremiah 51:13

O thou that dwellest upon many waters, rich in treasures, thy end is come for thy entire destruction.

Jeremiah 47:3

At the noise of the marching of arms and of his soldiers, at the rushing of his chariots and the multitude of his wheels. The fathers have not looked back to the children, for feebleness of hands,

Nahum 1:1

The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elcesite.

Isaiah 38:14

I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward. Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.

Isaiah 59:11

We shall roar all of us like bears and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment; and there is none: for salvation; and it is far from us.